Functioning and Potent

functioning

Process or manner of functioning or operating.
- usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
- synonyms: operation, performance

Perform as expected when applied.
- usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
Serve a purpose, role, or function.
- usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
- synonyms: serve, function
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
- usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
- synonyms: officiate, function

Performing or able to perform its regular function.
- usage: "a functioning flashlight"

potent

Having great influence.
- synonyms: powerful
Having or wielding force or authority.
- usage: "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
- synonyms: strong
Having a strong physiological or chemical effect.
- usage: "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea, "a stiff drink"
- synonyms: strong, stiff
Of a male. ( capable of copulation).
- synonyms: virile

(a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
(a.) Having great authority, control or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
(n.) A prince; a potentate.
(a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
(n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
(n.) A staff or crutch.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary